{"id":50769,"date":"2014-11-26T13:15:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T13:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f97956591480e40ffdfc63987511d35a"},"modified":"2014-11-26T13:15:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T13:15:58","slug":"news-story-illegal-animal-medicines-prosecution-of-mr-ronald-meddes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=50769","title":{"rendered":"News story: Illegal animal medicines: prosecution of Mr Ronald Meddes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>On 4 September 2014 at Croydon Crown Court, Mr Ronald Meddes was ordered to make a payment of \u00a339,353.68 within 6 months under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Failure to pay will result in a default prison sentence of 14 months. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Meddes was previously sentenced to 28 months imprisonment after admitting illegal importation and supply of veterinary medicines under the Veterinary Medicines Regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Further information about seizure and improvement notices can be found in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/veterinary-medicines-enforcement-vmgn-10\">Veterinary Medicines Guidance Note (VMGN) No. 10 \u2013 Guidance on Enforcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details of the prosecution of Mr Ronald Meddes for the illegal importation and supply of veterinary medicines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}